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	To Catch a Thief - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To Catch a Thief is a movie made in 1955, and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams.
		John Robie, played by Cary Grant, is a "retired" jewel thief called "The Cat" who now spends his time tending to his vineyards in France.
		Robie's plan is to catch the new cat burglar in the act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/To_Catch_a_Thief (429 words)

	To Catch a Thief (1955)
		In To Catch A Thief, a very tanned and fit Cary Grant stars as John “The Cat” Robie, a famed cat burglar in France before World War II and one who would come to fight on the side of the French Resistance Army.
		To Catch A Thief is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and receives anamorphic treatment from the fine folks at Paramount.
		There are a quite a few noticeable flaws on the source print, as To Catch A Thief seemingly wasn’t given the red carpet restorative treatment that Paramount’s Roman Holiday received.
	www.dvdmg.com /tocatchathief.shtml (2016 words)

	To Catch a Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		A reformed thief, formerly known as "The Cat" is enjoying the "clean" life in the Riviera until a series of debonaire and stylish jewel burglaries that imitate his well-known style start to pop up.
		He begins a hunt for the real thief to clear his name with the authorities and focuses on what could be the next victim, a beautiful and wealthy American woman.
	www.hollywood.com /movies/detail/movie/183952 (84 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: To Catch a Thief review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A skillful thief is at work, pilfering precious jewels in the dead of night; the thief's style is recognizably that of John Robie (Cary Grant), once known as The Cat.
		Edith Head was the costume designer for To Catch a Thief, and Edith Head - The Paramount Years (13:42) is a tribute to her career, her creativity, and her self-promotion.
		To Catch a Thief is a delightful romp with a charming cast performing a fine screenplay under the watchful eye of a directorial icon.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_5/tocatchathief.html (1448 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - To Catch A Thief
		To Catch a Thief is one painting in the Hitchcock collection he did for himself—for fun.
		In fact, there is an eerie prophetic moment in To Catch a Thief during which we glimpse the Princess' ultimate fate, as she speeds along the Riviera's winding cliff-hugging roads.
		From the performances of Grant and Kelly, to the majestic cinematography of Robert Burks, the masterful pacing of editor George Tomasini, and the playfully romantic score of composer Lyn Murray, To Catch a Thief is a jewel in crown of film history.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/tocatchathief.shtml (1189 words)

	DVD Review - To Catch A Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For those unfamiliar with this great film, "To Catch A Thief" is a crime caper with a bit romance and comedy sprinkled in.
		It tells the story of John Robie (Cary Grant), an infamous jewel thief called "The Cat" whose turf are the upper-class hotels of the French Riviera.
		"Alfred Hitchcock and To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation" is a featurette that allows Hitchcock’s daughter Pat and his granddaughter to reflect on the film, and Alfred Hitchcock as a person and filmmaker.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/to_catch_a_thief.shtml (736 words)

	To Catch A Thief (1955)
		To Catch A Thief (1955) is a Hitchcock-directed, lush, entertaining comedy/thriller concerning jewel heists on the French Riviera.
		The film's title, To Catch a Thief, was based upon the ancient proverb: "Set a thief to catch a thief," with double meanings regarding a double-chase.
		The American expatriate hero (a falsely-accused former cat burglar) has to catch the real cat burglar (a 'she-cat') during a rash of robberies before he is caught himself, while the heroine is on a quest to 'catch' him - first as the burglar, and then as a husband.
	www.filmsite.org /toca.html (3103 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: To Catch a Thief (Widescreen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Unlike most Hitchcock's most famous films, TO CATCH A THIEF offers nothing dark to trouble our thoughts, and it is perhaps best regarded as a romantic fantasia, the director's vacation from his more typical material.
		To Catch A Thief marks a departure for director Alfred Hitchcock.
		As he tries to capture the thief who's terrifying the French Riviera, he attracts the attention of the lovely Frances Stevens (Grace Kelly), a wealthy and spoiled American traveling the Riviera with her widowed mother (Jessie Royce Landis).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JJX8 (1238 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: To Catch a Thief
		But by the mid-'50s Hitch was ready to shoot To Catch a Thief, a film property he had owned for several years, and location work on the French Riviera was put on the schedule.
		To Catch a Thief was "lightweight material" (by the director's own admission), but it was a welcome diversion when it arrived.
		If Robie is the thief set "to catch a thief," then Frances is set upon catching a thief as well (Robie), using her sexual allure to absorb his identity for her own purposes — something the mysterious new "Cat" is doing after dark.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/t/tocatchathief.q.shtml (948 words)

	DVD review of To Catch A Thief - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, cruise control remains cruise control, and if a filmgoer’s first Hitchcock experience is “To Catch a Thief”, he/she may be left wondering about all the fuss concerning the “master of suspense”.
		Robie never seems to be actually trying to catch the new “cat”, nor is there any sense of urgency in the pacing.
		The best way to enjoy “To Catch a Thief” may be to focus on little touches such as shots of a fl cat skittering across tiled rooftops, Grace Kelly’s gorgeous costumes (designed by the legendary Edith Head), and the French-ness of the production.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/tocatchathief/10639/1400 (1089 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Money \| Credit and debt \| To catch a thief
		And behind the figures is a frightening picture emerging of internet card thieves stealing plastic to order, usually in batches of 20 cards at a time.
		And thanks to unprecented access to the email inbox of a card thief, we can show how they steal from big and small firms, and just how good - or bad - the credit card industry's security is.
		Our source freely admits that it may have broken data protection laws and privacy rules, but believes the thief's rights are less important than the need to prosecute card sharps.
	money.guardian.co.uk /creditanddebt/creditcards/story/0,1456,810304,00.html (2148 words)

	To Catch a Thief -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The screenplay was written by (Click link for more info and facts about John Michael Hayes) John Michael Hayes.
		John Robie, played by Cary Grant, is a "retired" jewel thief called "The Cat" who now spends his time tending to his (A farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced) vineyards in France.
		Jesse Stevens's jewels are stolen and Francie believes that John has taken them.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/to_catch_a_thief.htm (409 words)

	Alive Shop :: To Catch a Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Since the only way to clear himself is to catch the thief himself, he hooks up with an insurance agent whose company is paying out the claims on all the robberies and begins a game of cat and mouse with the thief.
		When her father is murdered and pegged as the thief, she lashes out at Robie at his funeral.
		Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film To Catch a Thief is a light, fluffly picture that differs in content over much of the suspense masters other pictures.
	www.aliveshop.com /B00005JJX8/To_Catch_a_Thief.html (1168 words)

	To Catch a Thief plot summary
		John Robie, a reformed jewel thief, is suspected to have returned to his old tricks when a spate of jewel thiefts occurs along the French Riviera.
		Capricious, flirty Francie Stevens, an American tourist, dares to fall in love with him though she secretly suspects he is behind the thefts.
		After a few thwarted attempts to collar the jewel thief, named The Cat by the press, John enlists Francie's help to nail the culprit.
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	TroyRutter.com - VHS : To Catch a Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I used to think it was cool to be a thief- until I got caught.
		For filmlovers, there is only one important issue when it comes to discussing a first time DVD reissue of a cinema classic: does it fullfill their hope of seeing the movie with markedly superior visual and audio characteristics.
		The answer in this case, sadly, is NO! This DVD issue of "To Catch a Thief" has NOT been restored, and is in no better than the washed out VHS version.
	www.troyrutter.com /Reviews/ItemId/6300215741/ReviewPage/10 (476 words)

	Thief
		Both the thief and the honest person may be reluctant to implicate those engaged in fraudulent activity.
		A dishonest person may be more likely to quickly respond “no” to this question, while an honest person may hesitate before responding; hesitating allows time for the interviewee to either think of someone or consider whether he or she wants to be a tipster.
		Remember that it’s to the advantage of an intelligent and skillful thief to offer specific suggestions about control deficiencies as a way of getting the interrogator off his or her trail.
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	The Kentucky Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was 3:30 in the morning in a raging thunderstorm on Monmouth Street when the burglar made his move on Newport's Pasquale's Pizza Thursday.
		All the elements for a successful crime of stealth seemed stacked in the thief's favor.
		Then Newport City Commissioner Jerry Peluso woke from his bed across the street and set off the events that turned out to be a thief's worst nightmare.
	www.kypost.com /2003/07/12/peluso071203.html (632 words)

	A David Dodge Companion - Novels - To Catch a Thief
		David Dodge’s eighth novel, To Catch a Thief, represents a distinct departure in style and subject matter from his previous works of fiction.
		The distinction between thief and non-thief was a state of mind....
		Just as a burglar did not cease to be a burglar between actual housebreakings, he need not necessarily change his nature after age and stiffening joints made it impossible for him to climb to second-story windows....
	www.david-dodge.com /novels/tcat.html (403 words)

	Book collecting, first editions: Firsts Magazine for book collectors - April, 2002
		To Catch a Thief, the basis for the Hitchcock film, is easily the most expensive of Dodge’s works.
		During the 1940s, when radio drama was the center of family entertainment in America, Corwin was known as “the Shakespeare of broadcasting.” From the outset, his work appeared in books; some 60 of his best radio plays have been collected into books.
		To Catch a Thief, a novel by David Dodge, a film by Alfred Hitchcock.
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	TO CATCH A THIEF
		Sure, there's suspense, but TO CATCH A THIEF is more about the lovely location (the French Riviera), the clothes and the love between a spoiled American heiress and a wanted jewel thief nicknamed The Cat.
		He is, after all, an infamous thief for whom expensive jewels are supposedly irresistible.
		The revelation of the real thief isn't much of a surprise, but you won't really care.
	www.crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsT/f_to_catch.html (235 words)

	To Catch A Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief (1955) is easily surpassed by Rear Window (1954) and North By Northwest (1959).
		As a portrayal of the 'International Set' of roughly the same time and place satirised by Joseph L. Mankievicz in The Barefoot Contessa (1954), it is interesting, although it lacks that film's social critique.
		John Robie (Cary Grant) is a retired master jewel thief famously known as "Le Chat" ("The Cat"), whose heroic efforts in the French Resistance earned him parole.
	www.comcen.com.au /~agfam/alvy/tcat.html (620 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- To catch an ID thief
		When it came to light that this rich lifestyle was built with stolen money – much of it stolen in their name – his friends saw another David Payne: the accomplished identity thief who penetrated their very lives and looted what he could.
		Mostly, they said they were stunned by Payne's heartlessness, his audacity, the coldblooded way he devastated those closest to him.
		But Payne's tactics were typical of today's identity thief.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/20040621-9999-1n21identity.html (1995 words)

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	To Catch A Thief - By: C. Cox, L. Harris, D. Mills & K. Y'Barbo - Christianbook.com
		These four female detectives are out to prove they have what it takes to be real-life detectives, but along the way begin to wonder if they’ll forever be left to mend seams or mind stores.
		Comments: "To Catch a Thief is an enjoyable anthology of stories seamlessly woven together as one, despite the fact that different authors wrote them.
		To Catch a Thief is a terrific read, not only taking us on an exciting adventure, but also showing true to history how many godly men and women settled the American West.
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	EETimes.com - Omron uses GPS to catch a car thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If a thief bypasses the first alarm, an alert is delivered via e-mail to the owner's mobile phone that an unauthorized person is in the driver's seat.
		The rightful owner disables the alarm and enters the vehicle by tapping a password into his or her mobile phone.
		The system is, however, vulnerable to a quick attack — for example, if the thief is able to smash the steel-encased box before it can complete its call.
	www.eetimes.com /story/technology/OEG20010612S0059 (1414 words)

	Alfred Hitchcock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He becomes convinced that the wife of a near neighbour has been murdered.
		To Catch a Thief, set in the French Riviera, starred Kelly and Cary Grant.
		In To Catch a Thief (1955), glamorous blonde Grace Kelly offers to help someone she believes is a cat burglar.
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